Author: Jeff Barr

The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) are important “glue” components for scalable, cloud-based applications (see the Reference Architectures in the AWS Architecture Center to learn more about how to put them to use in your own applications). One common design pattern is called “fanout.” In this pattern, a […]

We’ve received some great feedback on the EC2 instance status checks that were released earlier this year. Our customers appreciate the fact that we can detect and report on how their EC2 instances are performing. Today we are adding a new status check for EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes. As you know, you can now provision […]

The excitement is building for AWS re:Invent and I am looking forward to my trip to Las Vegas. I’ve got important information for attendees and for online viewers! AWS re:Invent for AttendeesIf you will be heading to Las Vegas for the conference, here’s what you need to know: What to Bring -Be sure to bring […]

Today we have a post written by guest blogger Alex Dunlap who is a Senior Manager on the AWS Team, responsible for Product Management for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. And now to Alex… — Jeff; Over the last year, the Amazon CloudFront team has gotten several questions from customers on how they can […]

One of the most interesting and challenging jobs on the AWS team (besides mine, of course) is that of Solutions Architect. As a Solutions Architect, you spend virtually all of your time working with our customers to help them get the most from AWS.You could even find yourself in the middle of a presidential campaign. […]

Today we have an awesome guest post from a General Manager on the Amazon EC2 team. Enjoy! — Jeff; Before talking about Windows Server 2012, let me first introduce myself. My name is Tom Rizzo and Im the General Manager for the Windows team in AWS. I previously worked at Microsoft in a variety of […]

Today I’m happy to bring you a guest post from Anders Samuelsson, Senior Product Manager on the AWS Identity and Access Management team. — Jeff; Suppose you run a research lab and you dump a terabyte or so of data into Amazon DynamoDB for easy processing and analysis. Your colleagues at other labs and in […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed David Rocamora, VP of DevOps for Controlgroup. We talked about the origins of cloud computing at Controlgroup, and the way that it has allowed them to make radical, transformative changes in the way that they design, develop, and deliver applications to their clients. We discussed a […]